Online Webinar – Recorded April 29th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Despite their complexity, the assets and systems that support defense organizations are critical to national security. Because of this, a consistent understanding of digital engineering and its application is vital.

Digital engineering is based on discipline, processes, collaboration and technologies that allow defense organizations and their partners to overcome and manage the complexities of assets and processes throughout their life cycles.

Join this Gartner IT webinar with Marc Halpern (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst  & Michael McFerron  (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst define the concept of digital engineering and elaborate on the principles and core components needed to get started.

Plus, they will also identify the challenges and recommend the best practices to enable digital engineering.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Break the misconceptions of digital engineering being only technology, but an overarching concept that involves discipline, culture, process
• Explore the continuous evolution of the standards, processes and technologies that enable digital engineering
• Understand how digital engineering requires a pragmatic multi-phased approach to implementation

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Top Practices To Enable Digital Engineering
For Government Organizations

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Live Webinar July 18th, 2024, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Like any large-scale strategic initiative, the success of cost optimization efforts hinges on effective strategy communications.

Given the general sensitivity associated with reducing costs and the added complexity of cross-enterprise workstreams, business leaders need the strategy team’s expertise to facilitate adoption of cost targets and build a shared understanding of cost optimization goals.

CIOs continue to experience cost pressures due to their geography or global pressures, making it difficult for them to help the enterprise achieve its objectives while sustaining the IT organization.

Join James Michael Anderson (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst, to learn how to build and communicate a cost optimization strategy using the discussed insights to develop and sustain cost optimization efforts.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Brainstorm and prioritize cost optimization ideas
• Develop a cost communication roadmap
• Communicate the impact of cost optimization efforts and decisions

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How To Build & Communicate A Cost Optimization Strateg

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Online Webinar  – Recorded May 24 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

What distinguishes the world’s best-managed supply chains?

The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 identifies, celebrates and profiles supply chain excellence on a global scale, and by target region and industry. Now in its 19th year, the global ranking is a peer benchmark for chief supply chain officers (CSCO) and their teams, inspiring innovation and leadership.

In this supply chain webinar Mike Griswold (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP  Team Manager, Simon Bailey (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst & Pia Orup Lund (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director Analyst; reveals the latest honorees of the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 and how they proactively manage this transformation.

You also will learn the four characteristics that most define the world’s leading supply chains, and find out why the supply chain will be viewed as the profession of the next decade.

Discussion Topics:

• Discover the 2023 honorees of the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25
• Learn the top 4 characteristics of today’s supply chain leaders
• Find out why the supply chain will be the profession of the next decade

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The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 For 2023

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Online Webinar – RRecorded June 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The stakes for artificial intelligence (AI) are so high geopolitically, economically and societally, that governments and enterprises alike must establish a determined approach to responsible innovation and policies.

Gartner predicts that by 2027, the productivity value of AI will be recognized as a primary economic indicator of national power.

The level of excitement for, and fear of, AI and generative AI (GenAI) sparked a growing focus on policy and regulatory work around the globe.

These efforts are happening at all levels of jurisdictions (national, state, local) according to their ethical, constitutional, social, economic, cultural and political underpinnings.

What constitutes a responsible innovation? What should effective AI policies entail? Join Katell Thielemann (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst in this Gartner government webinar as they look at nine AI trends driving policymaking today, and their implications for government strategic plans. You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions and a copy of the research slides to help you develop your policies

Discussion Topics:

• Review your strategic plans in light of the 9 top trends for AI policies and regulations
• Develop internal AI policies you can release in plain language that all employees will easily understand
• Use AI policy and regulations efforts in all jurisdictions where you operate as a baseline for your own policies

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Top Trends In AI Public Policy & Regulations For 2024 & Beyond

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Government CIOs and IT leaders often struggle with how to develop, select and use the right metrics,

KPIs and dashboards to present to executive leadership. A successful IT performance measurement program communicates metrics that are important to a target audience.

This remains true when communicating IT investments to the business. Join this complimentary Gartner IT webinar as a Gartner expert analyzes benchmarks and metrics to provide an industry-wide overview of current IT trends.

These benchmarks and metrics can be used to assist in communicating alignment with the business and in evaluating targets in key technology areas.

They also assist you in developing and communicating metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to improve and influence decision-making toward desired business outcomes.

Discussion Topics:

• Determine appropriate metrics for executive leaders
• Align technology metrics towards organizational outcomes
• Use metrics to demonstrate progress in going digital

Join James Michael Anderson (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst,  in this informative session.

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Develop Key Government IT Metrics That Matter To Leadership

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Customer service journeys are complicated — they’re inefficient, costly and deliver poor customer experience (CX).

Methods such as journey mapping can fail to deliver long-term success, and the reality is that service journeys often feel out of our control. Implementing journey management as an ongoing discipline is important.

In fact, reimagining the service journey as a vehicle to deliver customer value can lead to business success.

Join this Gartner customer service and support webinar as Daniel O’Sullivan (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst explores how to lead these efforts, and the roles, processes and technology you’ll need to move from reactive journey analysis, toward proactive journey design and orchestration.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Enable better self-service containment and improved CX
• Identify actionable steps to understand customer behavior across key journeys
• Utilize data and technology to continuously improve your influence over the CX

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Take Back Control Of Your Customer Service Journey For Better Results

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